March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... to the International Space Station (ISS). The failure destroyed 2,290 kg of cargo bound for the ISS, as well as 26 small satellites from commercial remote sensing company Planet Labs. While disappointment followed the accident, one theme resonated...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... in the development of viable, private space travel and cheaper options for launching small satellites. On the ground, terrestrial innovation in satellite communications took a step forward when Thuraya Telecommunications, the Dubai-based mobile...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... for space mining ventures and Planetary Resources, together with 3D Systems, is currently developing a prototype small satellite. This Arkyd satellite bus configuration uses its efficient torus shape to hold the propellant and also provide the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... a special review, as it is closely connected with the accelerated development of technology and the possibility of using small satellites as kinetic kill vehicles against a potential enemy. These circumstances point to the fact that the space debris...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
...Clarke’ orbital plane, broadcasting a never-ending stream of data, broadcast, radio and TV. New constellations of hundreds of small satellites in low Earth orbit are being proposed as well. Our digital world is connected by these orbital broadcasting...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... in a time-sequence manner. Once the quadpacks left the rocket, they opened to place the small satellites in orbit. All the 104 satellites were deployed in a 505 km polar Sun-synchronous orbit and, according to B. Jayakumar, mission director, one...
